Life after liberalism: The New Republic at 80
by Hilton Kramer
On history and journalism.
Features
Charles Reich & America’s cultural revolution
by Roger Kimball
A reconsideration of The Greening of America on its 25th anniversary.
Against modernity: the American Academy in the ‘20s
by Cynthia Ozick
On the American Academy of Arts & Letters under the direction of Robert Underwood Johnson.
Debasing Brancusi
by Sidney Geist
On “Constantin Brancusi: Shifting the Bases of Art” by Anna C. Chave.
Poems
Art
Serendipity in Milan:
by Karen Wilkin
On Il Disegno del Nostro Secolo at the Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “DalÃ: The Early Years” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Eric Gibson
On “Sense & Sensibility: Women Artists & Minimalism in the ’90s” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Theater
West End story
by Mark Steyn
On the American presence in London theater.
Most popular
Dance
The media
Finding “significance,” telling “The Story”
by James Bowman
On the O. J. Simpson murder case & the Whitewater hearings.
Books
A key to Mrs. Eddy
by Marc M. Arkin
A review of “With Bleeding Footsteps”: Mary Baker Eddy’s Path to Religious Leadership by Robert David Thomas.
Stories fine & fatuous
by Brooke Allen
A review of The Collected Stories by Grace Paley.
So terribly correct
by Terry Teachout
Shorter notice
by John Simon
Of Intimate Letters: LeoÅ¡ JanáÄek to Kamila Stösslová edited & translated by John Tyrrell.
Shorter notice
by Donald Lyons
Of Satire & Sentiment, 1660–1830 by Claude Rawson.
Notes & Comments
Loathsome performances
by The Editors
Nostalgie de la boue
by The Editors